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Job Details

Job Location:

Colorado Springs Region - Colorado Springs Region, CO 00000

Salary Range: $51,500.00 - $68,000.00 Salary/year

Title:

School Social Worker

Employee Group & Grade:
Professional/Exempt

Reports To:

Social Work Coordinator

Starting Salary Scale: $51,500-$68,000

Calendar Year: 200 days.

Must work all scheduled calendar days in Colorado

Date Written/Revised:
July 2026

Great Mission and Great Culture.

Recognized as an Award-winning High School that serves at-risk students throughout Colorado.

Recognized as 1 of 3 schools worldwide to receive the distinction of “Biggest Impact School” in technology from Microsoft.

Our staff can plan vacations with one 14-day break, two 1-week breaks, and additional weeks off in the summer.

Competitive starting salary based on years of experience and qualifications.

Potential to earn Pay-for-Performance incentives as a member of the GOAL Team.

• Competitive Benefits include an emphasis on Wellness in the workplace.
• The ability to continue contributing to the Colorado Public Schools Retirement System PERA.
• PERA 401K or Roth 401K with a 5% Match after one year
• Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and AD&D plans.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
• Voluntary life insurance for employees and dependents.
• Short-and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Optional additional insurance that includes accident, critical illness, and hospital plans.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• The school provides a laptop, cell phone, and additional equipment, as needed.
• Robust Professional Development and opportunity to work with passion, mission driven colleagues who are invested in your personal and professional growth.
• GOAL High School is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF).

To provide quality services and expertise on issues ranging from program design to intervention with individual students within the scope of their professional training and licensure. Staff members who fill this position will support the social/emotional growth of students. The Social Worker will link child serving and community agencies to the schools and families to support the student's academic, emotional, behavioral, and social success.

Show Up:
Be ACCOUNTABLE for our students, ourselves, and our team.

Connect:
Develop and maintain TRANSPARENT and HONEST relationships with our students and team.

Succeed:
Become a STRONG unified team providing students with an INNOVATIVE environment to become productive members of society.

School Social Worker is responsible for managing/monitoring the internal student support services referral system.

Referrals include anything from basic needs to crisis response. Examples include reporting suspected abuse/neglect, crisis intervention, mental health support, and supporting barriers to educational success.

Social Worker is responsible for adding relevant stakeholders and assigning referrals to internal staff members.

Social Worker leads regional crisis response team, in collaboration with administration, relevant staff members, and community service providers (when needed).

Respond and assess student social emotional needs and refer to community resources and/or provide short-term social emotional support in an individual or small group setting, based on licensure and experience.

Participate in the planning, coordination, implementation and delivery of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programming, curriculum and initiatives that support student academic, behavioral, and emotional success.

Assume leadership roles in their region and within the school as a whole.

Identify families to be school leaders.

Educate school personnel on the impact of trauma through professional development, modeling, and participation in problem solving meetings.

Provide training and consultation to enhance others’ practices, skills & abilities relevant to social emotional needs, such as mandatory reporting, utilizing the referral system, crisis response protocol, etc.

Establish partnerships with community agencies/providers and…